EcoNews Report
A weekly environmental news roundup produced in Arcata, California by Tom Wheeler (Environmental Protection Information Center), Caroline Griffith (Northcoast Environmental Center), Alicia Hamann (Friends of the Eel River), Jen Kalt (Humboldt Waterkeeper) and Colin Fiske (Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities).
Podcasting since 2019 • 272 episodes
EcoNews Report
Latest Episodes
The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act
This week: An all-star roundtable with our favorite law wonks, wherein we try to figure out where the Supreme Court is taking the National Environmental Policy Act — the most important federal law regulating the environmental costs of developme...
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Season 2025
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Episode 236
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29:07
Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt's Horizon?
On Donald Trump's first day in office, he signed an Executive Order directing all parts of the federal government to take steps to stop the development of offshore wind. This has left people wondering: what's the future for offshore wind? Spoil...
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Season 2025
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Episode 235
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29:11
Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy
Pope Francis centered the climate crisis during his papacy, highlighting the moral obligations that we all share to our fellow humans (especially the poorest among us, as they will be disproportionately impacted by climate change) as well as ou...
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Season 2025
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Episode 234
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29:11
Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warns that when we experience the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, land near the coast may rise or fall significantly over a short period of time—think...
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Season 2025
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Episode 233
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29:06
New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest
Melodie Meyer of the Environmental Protection Information Center joins the show this week to talk about a new plan to log 500 acres of the Jackson State Forest by the method known as "group selection." This forest in Mendocino Count...
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Season 2025
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Episode 232
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28:22